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...study, co-authored by two scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, concluded that the 20th century has been neither the warmest century of the past millennium nor the one with the most extreme weather...
...overfishing may have disrupted the food chain, allowing the overgrowth of other types of algae, which compete with coral for food. This accumulated stress has made reefs vulnerable to modern disease. "The patient is terminally ill," says marine biologist John Pandolfi of the National Museum of Natural History--Smithsonian Institution in Washington, "but the underlying sickness is pollution and overfishing...
...UNVEILED. Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb, dubbed "Little Boy," on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, killing up to 230,000 people; at a Smithsonian Institution hangar near Dulles Airport in Virginia. Japanese victims groups have protested the plan to put the plane on public display in December...
...stranger to the University, Lentz received both his masters and doctorate in Islamic art from Harvard. He assumed his post at the Smithsonian in 2000, heading up its Freer Gallery of Art, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the National Museum of African...
Lentz is on vacation from the Smithsonian Institute for the month of August, and representatives in his office would not comment on a possible departure...